Gigabyte SV S260-NF1 2U NVMe Over Fabric Storage 24x2.5 HS Retail

2U NVMe Over Fabric Storage | Application: Storage

• Western Digital Onyx NVMe Over Fabric storage controller

• Fully supports iWARP, RoCE v1 and v2

• Dual controller architecture

• 1 x 100Gb/s or 2 x 50Gb/s Ethernet port(s) via QSFP28 interface

• 1 x AST2520 management port per node

• 24 x 2.5" NVMe hot-swappable bays

• 3 x PCIe Gen3 x16 slots per node

• Dual 800W 80 PLUS Platinum redundant power supply


NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMeOF)

Direct Attached NVMe Storage is Fast & Efficient, but Still Has Limitations…

• Direct attached NVMe storage has limited scalability, as PCIe is inherently not designed for expansion far outside the box.

• Direct attached storage offers little or no support for sharing of flash resources amongst multiple servers. Servers can only access flash in their own chassis.

• No sharing leads to storage utilization inefficiency and resource waste. Underutilized “stranded” or “dark” flash can be an issue


Bringing Scale-Out NVMe Storage Capabilities Independent of Compute

NVMe-OF enables NVMe-based communication over interconnects (“fabrics”) other than PCIe. This interface makes it possible to connect “external” storage enclosures to a server, either directly or through a switch, while still using NVMe as the fundamental communication mechanism. Flash storage can then be scaled out independent of compute.


Enabling Resource Disaggregation + Pooling to Maximize Efficiency & Minimize Under-utilization

Combined with virtualization, the amount and type of each resource (CPU, GPU, storage, networking) can be selected for each workload independent of where that resource is physically located in the data center.